Kennebec River Freezing Dates Reported in Bath
Bath residents note historic river closures with ice forming above the Kennebec. Records show 1792 November 4 and 1892 January 9 as prior end dates. Community hopes for late freeze to allow coal shipments from upriver points. Vesels chartered to bring coal past Bath. local shipyard activity includes Capt Pinkham selling produce at Houghton wharf. Weeks Street Grammar School dismisses due to classroom fire, 110 pupils present, light smoke, principal Miss Mabel H. Benner.
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Bath
Kennebec
Weeks Street Grammar School
Mabel H. Benner
North Street Free Baptist elects officers for year ahead
In an annual parish meeting held November 12 1902 North Street Free Baptist elected J F Purington as moderator Charles O Goodwin as clerk E C Pike as treasurer auditor Gustave Pease and others to the board of assessors with E C Pike as collector Ernest P Work left for Blackshear Ga for health reasons. Several local residents visited Brunswick and St Marys guild and Primrose club events noted along with a pool tournament planned for winter at James Savage's parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Street Free Baptist Church
J. F. Purington
Charles O. Goodwin
E. C. Pike
Gustave Pease
E. J. Wilson
Bath Area Notes October November 1902 News Briefs
Charles H. Potter begins duties as cashier elect at First National Bank. Ver nal Chase and others on a gunning trip bring a fox and four rabbits with Chase shooting the fox. Alderman C W Clifford and F H Kimball return from Lily Bay with no deer but good time. Harold Bibber named resident manager of Monson Consolidated Co. Hyde Light Guards hold first armory assembly led by Victoria Bartlett and Bernard Wood. Elm Street Church social well attended. Bath Iron Works draftsmen enjoy improved winter schedule. Ellen Pizer visits from Taunton. reunion after 15 years. First snow of season arrives with slush on sidewalks. Bath Iron Works employees bound for Boston monitor Nevada cruise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Potter
First National Bank
Vernal Chase
Charles Robbins
Roy Chase
Arrowsic
C. W. Clifford
F. H. Kimball
Lily Bay
Harold Bibber
Monson Consolidated Co
Bath
R. D. Bibber
G. W. Johnson
Bibber
Hyde Light Guards
Vine Street
Victoria Bartlett
Bernard Wood
Kenneth Specht
Ralph Mank
John Lee
Elm Street
Bath Iron Works
Ellen Pizer
Taunton
Mass
A. C. Sprague
Union Street
Boston
Nevada
Local trademark granted for toilet powders
C A Reed of this city receives a trademark for toilet powders. The vessel was hauled out on the railway before the trial trip and is set to depart according to current arrangements next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Reed
Local Notices and Crews Toward Winter
A November 14 1902 Nantucket style notice list covers food specials at Dewey's Lunch Room a club rehearsal at the Mandolin Guitar and Banjo club with Prof Sin clair A Thompson of Brunswick the Colonial club minstrel show on the horizon and updates on local residents church services steamer arrivals accidents and staff changes at the First National Bank and Navy yard duty assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair A. Thompson
Brunswick
Colonial Club
Boy Trashes Paper In Front Of Store
A street youngster shredded newspaper in front of a shop door then tossed the soggy fragments into a small pool. A nearby officer ordered him to pick up the wet litter and ferry it to a dock, making several trips amid cold rainwater.
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the Law
Ladies plan class for club swinging and calisthenics at Y M C A
A group of city women intends to form a class for instruction in club swinging dumbbell and Swedish exercises at the Y M C A on Wednesday evenings through the winter under N Gratz Jackson the association’s physical director if enough women enroll. Among town news Samuel Welch formerly of the city visited Sunday while Andy Watson and trainer Peter Walker arrived and Watson aims to win his boxing match tonight with Cote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Gratz Jackson
Association
Andy Watson
Peter Walker
Boston
Berry House
Watson
Cote
Personal notes from Bath area residents ailing traveling and local events
Philip Roberts is confined to his home on Dummer street with illness. Mr. and Mrs. Judson Miller of Garden street are in Detroit visiting relatives. Mrs. Joseph Tardif of Nichols street is convalescing at Memorial Hospital. Charles Douglas Hunnewell has two weeks vacation from RFD duties in Woolwich. Eleanor Bertrand is a patient at Osteopathic hospital in Portland after an operation. Mrs. Winfield T. Roberts left for Bangor to visit her parents. Mrs. Margaret B. Peabody is steadily improving from illness. Mrs. George Moses has returned home after an appendectomy. Leland Mitchell is staying temporarily. Franklin Morse family bought the Capt. Eliot house on Valley road. Linwood Temple and William Paisley Jr. returned from a visit to relatives. Irma Wallace of Nassau College has a role in a Dramatic Club production of Spider Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Roberts
Dummer Street
Judson Miller
Garden Street
Detroit
Mich
Miller
Joseph Tardif
Nichols Street
Memorial Hospital
Charles Douglas Hunnewell
Woolwich
Eleanor Bertrand
Osteopathic Hospital
Portland
Winfield T. Roberts
Beacon Street
Bangor
Charles H. Hillman
Bath
Margaret B. Peabody
Richmond
Rebekah Assembly of
Maine
George Moses
Corliss Street
Leland Mitchell
Franklin Morse
Loretta
Sherman L. Morse
High Street
Capt. Eliot
Valley Road
Linwood Temple
William Paisley, Jr
Temple
Herbert Morse
Irma Wallace
School of Secretarial Science
Nassau College
Springvale
Dramatic Club
Joseph Spraulding
Spider Island
Sagada probate court hears busy sessions on many estates
Two sessions of Sagada probate court led by Judge Arthur J. Dunton settled numerous Administrations Filed and Granted, Wills Filed and Allowed, Inventories and Accounts filed, Bonds approved, and a license to sell real estate granted to Paul Hemmerling as administrator. The docket lists estates from Bath, Woolwich, Topsham, Richmond, Phippsburg, and Bowdoinham with executors and guardians named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe
Arthur J. Dunton
Henry M. Biggins
Edward Biggins
Bath
Hermon F. Dodge
Cynthia J. Adams
Woolwich
Raymond G. Putnam
Ruth S. Putnam
Carol Sue Putnam
Rebecca B. Minott
Charles V. Minott
Phippsburg
Minnie I. Hunter
Bowdeinham
Wallace L. Hunter
Lawrence Saucier
Topsham
Cecile Saucier
Allan M. Howes
Elmer E. McFarland
Bangor
Mary Fisher
Ruth P. W. Tarbox
Bond
William A. Todd
Admr
Everett C. Higgins
Georgetown
Isabella D. Wilband
Clifford B. Wilband
Frank E. Harvie
Emma M. Knowlton
Nellie M. Johnson
John M. Johnson
Harold E. Tobey
Daniel Bishop
Charles A. Knight
Sarah E. Whitten
Ada M. Woodside
Guardian
Flora J. Morrell
Edith I. Peary
Admx
Ella W. Kimball
Richmond
Bessie L. Clark
John E. Clark
Emma F. Hooper
Martha E. Hooper
William S. Shorey
Harry L. Day
Sydney J. Meeker
Catherine Minott
Florence L. Mank
Victor C. Ballard
Daniel Williams
Horace F. Murray, Jr
Et Als
Clarence A. Preble
Grace S. Preble
Laverne Harris Joss
Boyd L Bailey
William M. Collins
Gardiner R. Deering
David Pereau
Bath National Bank
Nellie C. Marston
Charles T. Small
Albert A. Babb
Rachel Dunning
Ella M. Sidelinger
Manfred E. Sidelinger
Allan Howes
Paul Hemmerling
Real estate transfers filed in Sagadahoc County
Transfers recorded by Register of Deeds Hiram T. Stevens show numerous property moves in Sagadahoc County including Arrowsic, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Georgetown, Phinachnre, Richmond, West Bath and Woolwich. Transactions list buyers and sellers with land and buildings or land alone on streets and avenues such as High Street Washington Street Meadow Way Shep ard Street Huse Street Oliver and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram T. Stevens
Register of Deeds
Arrowsic Elizabeth A. Clark
Lester H. Young
Gladys G. Mayo
Howard W. Mayo
High Street
Emma B. Colby
Jessie C. Norton
Howard G. McMahan
Howard Elliott
Washington Street
Katherine L. Reed
Henry A. Alix
Arthur G. Spear
Cassius C. Whidden
Oliver Street
Elmer J. Stark
Harvey E. Flewelling
Huse Street
Henry J. Arsenault
John A. Presley
Meadow Way
Marie B. King
Ernest P. King
Shepard Street
Lyman B. Hollingshead
Earl R. Legard
Bowdoin
Mary E. Rogers
Elmer G. Gowell
Bowdoinham Ellis Moore
Jake Bishop
Civil Defense Aircraft Observation Posts Call for Volunteers
Observation post details describe Army commanded civilian defense observers needed to monitor ships from radio silent outposts. Each post has a chief and seven assistants with 24 hour weekly coverage. Training is minimal, shifts aim for two to four hours. Open to men and women over 16 with good eyesight and hearing. Focus on night shifts preferred for men. posts operate 24 hours regionwide with female volunteers already serving.
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Portland
More Selectees Leave Bath for Fort Devense Thursday
A 39 man group from Sagadahoc County departs Bath Thursday morning on the 10 03 train for Fort Devense for induction into the Army. Rev Frederick P Moffatt will address the group at Selective Service headquarters before departure. The list includes Bath residents Frank L Jenness Robert E James Paul A Thurston and others from Richmond Phippsburg Topsham Woolwich and South Portland. Donald and Christopher Wallace of Phippsburg are among the first brothers to be taken in the same group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Fort Devense
Army of the United States
Sagadahoc County
Army
Portland
Frederick P. Moffatt
Corliss Street Church
Selective Service
Frank L. Jenness
Robert E. James
Paul A. Thurston
Richard O. Duerschmidt
Nimard M. Fifield
Harold C. Brock
Harold B. Babine
Carlton E. Rideout
Charles M. Staples Jr
Wilson F. Fitzgerald
Albert W Coffin Jr
Parker T. Black Jr
Peter E. Lebel Jr
George A. Potter
James W. McIver
Donald I. Wallace
Lincoln E. Campbell Jr
Christopher F. Wallace
Topsham
Paul N. Pelletier
David G. Ponziani
Earl .C. Higgins
Woolwich
Walter W. McLain
South Portland
Donald
Christopher Wallace
Phippsburg
Woolwich Youth Pleads Guilty To Driving Charge
George Stafford 18 of Woolwich pleaded guilty in Municipal court to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He paid a $100 fine and $4.70 in costs after being arrested by Patrolman Joseph Williams near Penny Arcade on Center Street where beer bottles were found in the car. A Bath man also pleaded guilty to intoxication, ordered to pay $5.05 costs or serve 15 days in Augusta jail, amid courtroom tension with Judge Gardiner R. Deering. Lions party moves to Court house for a women’s night at an army post with broad invitation and travel support facilitated by local Lions Club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stafford
Woolwich
Boyd L. Bailey
Stafford
Joseph Williams
Penny Arcade
Center Street
Williams
Augusta
Gardiner R. Deering
Lions of
Bath
Mr and Mrs Oliver Tour Rangeley for Two-Week Stay
Mr and Mrs Joseph R Oliver of 1373 Washington Street left Tuesday noon to spend two weeks in Rangeley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph R. Oliver
Washington Street
Rangeley
Probate Notices From Sagadahoc County Adjudge Appointments
John L. Jack registers probate listing appointees in Sagadahoc County estates. Individuals named include Ellie G. Coombs as executrix in West Bath and Frank A. Page as executor in New York, all dated November 10, 1942. Other estates note appointments of executors, administrators, or guardians in Bath and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wills
Charlotte I. Meeker
Bath
Angie C. Edwards
Topsham
Mildred F. Edwards
Adelbert B. Allen
Richmond
Mary D. Nelson Allen
Hattie M. Purinton
Horace E. Purinton
Samuel H. Kirkpatrick
Woolwich
Dora H. Kirkpatrick
Mary B. Page
Frank A. Page
New York City
Frank A. Hodgdon
Harrietta Ann Gearing Hodgdon
John C. Tourtillotte
Annie B. Tourtillotte
Executrix
Harry W. Moulton
Ellie G. Coombs
West Bath
John L. Jack
Sagadahoc
Harrieiie Anngdon
Wooliday
New York
Arthur J. Dunton
Allan M. Howes
Elmer F. McFarland
Bangor
Meeting Program Highlights P T A Grace church event
Two minute talks by department chairmen opened the North Center P T A program at Grace church parish house Oak street General discussion followed each talk The meeting was presided by Mrs W Scott Davis Members voted to partner with Mrs Joseph I Smith to study social hygiene and form a study group Mrs Smith named leader The Maine Parent-Teacher bulletin will be funded locally and a letter of appreciation was sent to Mrs Edward B Hamblett for her work as acting president of the Third District Council The group will prepare holiday candy boxes with Mrs Norman W Howard as chairwoman Duncan H Farrell will speak December 1 on the new physical education setup and its program The executive board met prior to the meeting with changes in officers noted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Church Parish House
Oak Street
W. Scott Davis
Joseph I. Smith
Smith
Maine
P. T. A. Bulletin
Treasury
Edward B. Hamblett
Third District Council
School of Information
Cosmopolitan Club
Norman W. Howard
Morris S. Povich
Duncan H. Farrell
Bath
William W. Dennison
Horace G. Morse
Daniel Matter
Morton F. Young
Probate Court Orders in Sagadahoc Maine Estates
Notice to interested persons of a Bath Sagadahoc court of probate on the second Tuesday of November 1942. Lists estates including Caroline Baker Quinby Rebecca B. Minott Earnest Smith Martha E. Hooper Sydney J. Meeker Victor C. Pollard Horace F. Murray Jr. and others with petitions for probate final accounts guardianship and name changes. Public notices call for appearance to contest or support actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Caroline Baker Quinby
Suirensburs
Massachusetts
Ted
Sagadihie
Maine
Caroline Baker Anderson
Charles V. Minott
Phippsbore
Rebecca B. Minott
Earnest Smith
Petifon
Earnest Walls
Grace M. Trask
Martha E. Hooper
Emma F. Hooper
Catherine Minott
Phoppshore
Guardian
Sydney J. Meeker
Wiliam S. Shorer
Harry L. Day
Charlotte I. Meeker
Victor C. Pollard
Florence L. Mank
Horace F. Murray, Jr
Dantel Williams
Emma M Knowlton
Frank E. Harvie
Alligator Amphibian Tractor Serves Leathernecks Invasion Taxi
The amphibian tractor nicknamed Alligator or Invasion Taxi is now produced in a former car maker plant. Designed from the Florida 1933 hurricane need, it travels water and land, can be carried aboard ships, tests near Detroit on Lake St. Clair show it clears marshlands for Marine use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
United States
U. S
Florida
Everglades
U.S. Navy
Virginia
Navy
Lake St. Clair
Detroit
Michigan
Rudolph Trafton Visits Parents in Georgetown Center
Rudolph Trafton of Portland and former Bath resident has been a guest of his parents Mr and Mrs Howard Trafton at Georgetown Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Trafton
Portland
Bath
Mrs
Howard Trafton
Georgetown Center
Probate notices from Sagadahoc County three week Bath paper
Public notice lists estates including Charlotte I Meeker Cynthia J Adams Edward Biggins and John M Johnson with requests for appointing administrators executors and final accounts. Orders publish in Bath Independent to gather objections December meeting at ten in the forenoon. Names The First National Bank of Bath Herman F Dodge Raymond G Putnam Ruth S Putnam and others. Attest 12-19-26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sagadahoc
Daniel Williams
First National Bank of Bath
Cynthia J. Adams
Woolwich
Herman F. Dodge
Portland
Edward Biggins
Henry M. Biggins
Carol
Sue Putnam
Raymond G Putnam
Ruth S. Putnam
Herman Ashley Campbell
Georgetown
Herbert Arthur Campbell
Herman Ashley Nobell
John M. Johnson
Nellie M Johnson
John E. Clark
Bessie L. Clark
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bath Daily Times
Ey Il
St. Mary’s Church
Charles Stevens
Russell Street
Pinkham
Annie May
Houghton Wharf
Ernest P. Work
Blackshear
L. Rogers, Jr
Carl Crosby
Charles Owen
Ray Rogers
Sinclair Thompson
St. Mary’s Guild of Grace Church
Charles Magoun
Green Street
Primrose Club
H. H. Donnell
North End
James Savage
W. L. White
L. L. Harmon
Boobthday Center
Bates College
Charles A. Davenport
William T. Donnell
Misses Leach
W. W. Mason
Auburn
J. Edward Drake
Merrymeeting Bay
Ramson B. Fuller
U.S
Cumberland
Mrs. D. Howard
Moosehead Lake
Frank Gardiner
Capen’s
A. H. Shaw
S. R. Percy
Henry M. Hartlebb
Mount Kineo
H. E. Wilson
Bristol
N. H
North Street Church
Leo
Houghton’s
Ransom B. Fuller
J. H. Blaisdell
Daniel Miller
Harrington’s
Hawley’s Yard
Armory
Walter Shuman
Carrie Stevens
John A. Lord
United States Navy
Puget Sound Naval Station
Asiatic
Solace
Mr. Lord
William D. Mussenden
M. W. Sewall
Philadelphia
E. H. McLachlin
New England
Mildred Palmer
Front Street
Samuel Welch
Sanford and Cape Porpoise
Frank L. Morse
Denver
Col
John Hayes
Mechanic Street
Charles Footer
Ladies of the Universalist Church
J. W. Savage
North Street
George Clough
Eddie
Ferris W. Leonard
Isabella M. Hallstein
Phinachnre
Preeerr Reetetes
Cora L. Campbell
Ada C. Perry
Julia M. Farnsworth
Arthur A. Payne
Paul I. Peabody
William H. Sampson
Harold T. Wheeler
Thomas C. Wheeler
Arline Hemmerling
Ernest Smith
Madison Moore
Gamboa
C. Z
States
Kingfield
Moore
Enton I. Moore
Cherry Street
P.T.A
Archie L. Lovette
Lovette
New Jersey
James McKenna
Jeannene West
McKenna
Pratt Street
John, Jak
Register
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